Somatic symptoms in patients with cancer experiencing pain or depression: Prevalence, disability, and health care use

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1686-1694

  Kroenke, Kurt ^a,b,c   Zhong, Xin ^b   Theobald, Dale ^d   Wu, Jingwei ^b   Tu, Wanzhu ^b,c   Carpenter, Janet S ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Community Home Health Hospice and Symptom Management Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957957781     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.337     Document Type: Article

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